Ben

I like it too but it does have a bit of a newsletter feel to it. Do people reply to emails you send with this from-name?

Which from-name are you using when sending emails from your personal account?

I've seen:
Firstname at Product
Firstname @ Product
Firstname from Product
Full Name @ Product
Full Name | Product
Full Name

#buildinpublic #email

Steam autumn sale email

Saw this and first impulse was to buy a game.

But then remembered that games are way less fun than building and shipping something.

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I'll never have to open the horrible GA4 again!

Because today I'm launching WebTrafficWatch. It imports and visualizes Google Analytics & Search Console data for me.

And because I love statistics, it also detects outliers and trends in my graphs.

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Please help me improve my video setup.

It's for long form YouTube videos.

I thought I'd use the empty space on the right for text or visuals

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me: let's not overthink the launch

also me:

One thing YouTube analytics does extremely well are these comparisons to "usual ranges".

No complicated words, just a range and an arrow if you're above or below that range.

Instead of launching today I had a bit of a fail. But soon! #buildinpublic

nuclear power plants are my football fields

it's so convenient that 1 nuclear plant is roughly 1 GW

too bad, now do it as a video. and then as a shorter text. and then on a podcast. and then as an ad. it never ends.

one reason why marketing is so hard for engineers is because you have to repeat yourself so much.

but as an engineer don't-repeat-yourself is beaten into us.

but in marketing repetition is everything.

you've already written about how your app solves that special use case?

graph with 2 data points marked as outliers

how much can you overthink a product demo?

i just coded a function that generates demo data that's interesting enough to explain some core features like outlier detection.

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gpt5-medium is way worse than sonnet.

despite several attempts and confident "done." it just couldn't do it. high fixed it in one go.

(again i accidentally used medium instead of high)

Time series data with a linear regression and a confidence band around it.

I'm building a tool that trains a linear regression model on time series data to catch anomalies.

Does this count as AI?

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Every metric needs a confidence interval!

I haven't tried it yet, but figuring out where to use which unit in your UI sounds like a task for a small (by today's standard a minuscule) LLM.

Percentages continued...
• Unless the change itself is a ratio
• Depending on your users they might not actually understand percentages. "1 out of 7" may be better than "14%".

Percentages (3%, +5 percentage points)
• Internally often the raw ratio of two numbers and the result of a division (clicks / impressions)
• In most cases users expect a percentage like 10% and not 0.1
• Changes are not %, but "percentage points"

Ordinals (1st place, position 3)
• In a table or list you can get away with using a title and dropping the unit: Positions: 3, 7, 10
• In a sentence it's either "position 2" or "2nd position"
• Unless it's a change, then it's "3 positions higher"

Measurements (2 km, 1 kWh, 3 °C)
• For abbreviations simply don't handle pluralization
• Rate of change may change the units: 1 kWh (energy) per hour becomes 1 kW (power)

Events (3 times, 2x)
• Handle this as a count and call it "3 events" or if it counts something "5 signups"

Counts (3 clicks, 1 user, 500 impressions, 0 subscribers)
• Handle pluralization (different languages pluralize differently)
• But watch out for subtle differences:
• Subscribers describe a state at a point in time
• Clicks have typically happened within a time frame

Displaying numbers and their units in UIs is hard.

Here's a quick guide to units beyond pluralization:

Label and units may be different
• Water is measured in liters
• Users are measured in users
• Click-through-rate is measured in %
• Positions sometimes sound weird with a unit

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Quick statistics reminder: If you email 10 people and none reply, the 95% confidence interval of your reply-rate is between 0% and 31%